Salaries

Web Designers, Web Masters.. etc.

[geoapa]

I was just wondering what the average salaries and perks (bonuses, vacation etc.) are for web designers.

Maybe someone who lives in the North East with a B.S. in Information Technology and 1 year of work experience.

Skills include expert level in HTML, CSS, JavaScript as well as experience in ASP, Perl/CGI scripting.

[sem4u]

Take a look at some of the vacancies on jobserve.com.

[le_gber]

go on yahoo jobs, *http://uk.careers.yahoo.com/ and click on the salary checker (it will give you the average salary that was advertised fo your chosen job.

Otherwise you've got www.cwjobs.co.uk which also have a salary checker and a lot of vacancies to look at.

Leo

[geoapa]

I didn't realize there were so many members from UK!

I'm from USA so I'll check the equivalent sites for here.

Thanks.

[TomWaits]

Buck Consultants does a well-regarded salary survey for web-related jobs either every year or every other year.

[trillianjedi]

It looks like it is in decline - web based jobs in the UK are certainly in a downturn.

A lot of this work is now being farmed out to India (where the quality is high and price is cheap).

Not sure how things stand in the US.

TJ

[graywolf]

>>A lot of this work is now being farmed out to India (where the quality is high and price is cheap).

We tried this about 2 years ago price was definitely cheap, quality was not that good. Code worked but wasn't well documented, easy to follow, or efficient. I guess they knew they weren't married to the code so it didn't really matter to them.

[edit_g]

It looks like it is in decline - web based jobs in the UK are certainly in a downturn.

Having just found a new job I didn't find this. Things are outsourced to India or wherever, sure, but web designers/developers just have to change. There is now a higher expected experience level requirement for the highly paid jobs. This is in line with other industries. Some of the jobs for Java and VB still have astoundingly high salaries - and anyone who can demonstrate skills in these areas is in the money. It is not enough anymore just to be able to design a good looking site.

[waldemar]

Can somebody please post some $$$? In Munich@Germany, we're around €40 for semi-to-pro html/php/etc.

[choster]

Have a look at swz-hotjobs.salary.com for the US.

I haven't seen salaries decline so much as jobs change (granted, I am in one of the few currently strong US markets)-- new specialties and expert practices seem to command greater resilience to the current economic doldrums. Someone with Hotmetal Pro calling herself a web designer might have commanded $90K in 1997, now her entry-level HTML jockeys may earn only half as much.